jasmac, 482 should recognize ext4 without a problem, 477 will only recognize ext4dev.

Ext4 is not recognized on a frugal or full hd installation of 477 on my machine. Also, ext4 is not recognized on a frugal installation of 482. I have been unable to boot a full hd installation of 482 (will download and try again).

Other problems noted with both 477 and 482 frugal installations:
1. Set global font size does not work.
2. Synaptic package manager will not work. When trying to update, error messages are: "could not download all repository indexes", "E: Lists directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is missing." and "E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing." (same problem with full hd installation of 477)
3. First start wizard starts unexpectedly.

I am still unable to install 482 as a full disk installation with a new download. Grub tries to boot it, but it fills the screen with flickering error messages. Went back to 477 for a full hd installation which boots fine. A frugal installation of 482 boots with no problem.

I'll try the patches on the 482 frugal installation and report back.

Jim

EDIT: Using frugal installation of 482:
1. Tried patch which ppm shows as installed. However, ext4 partitions are identified correctly but cannot be mounted. Barry has apparently corrected all the ext4 problems with 430 (see his blog) and I now have a frugal installation of ttuuxxx's 4.3.1 running fine on an ext4 partition. I'd like to try full hd and frugal installations of dpup on an ext4 partition.

2. Using ppm, successfully installed amsn and Bibletime. Bibletime did have one missing dependency, libcurl-gnutls.so.4. It was then installed and Bibletime works fine. Both amsn and Bibletime .desktops had to be edited in order for the icons to show up on the menu.

3. Installed Pwidgets-2.1.0.pet which appears to work fine.

4. The "Set global font size" doesn't work on 482. Apparently, that bug depends on the hardware, but Barry's fix for it works fine.Last edited by Jim1911 on Wed 07 Oct 2009, 15:41; edited 2 times in total

Take both kdelibs and kde, these are to be used with dpup, on other pups might need more dependencies, since I striped some libs that dpup already had.

KDE Menu is messed up, most items are in Lost & Found
I'll leave to someone else to fix that, you can arrange it with kmenuedit then share it if you know which are kmenu conf files.

I'll upload amarok pet some other day. I tested this on clean dpup477 boot. After install exit X then type xwin startkde. After you end session type reboot or poweroff. Have fun _________________puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored HERE or HERE

After numerous reinstallation attempts with 482 Beta 1 and still no success.....no boot, I was comparing the filesystems of a successful 477 install and the unbootable 482 install.Both are full installs.

In 482 Beta the SYS directory is totally empty and the TMP directory has much less inside.

Is the installer not copying everything to the hard drive?

Posting from 477 now....it is working fine....no complaints, just waiting for the Synaptics patch later.

I hope that someone has better luck with the service pack than I had. Downloaded the delta, verified, combined into 482 Beta 2, burned and verified with burniso2cd and rebooted with the new disc.

No boot. right after "loading initrd.gz.............ready" I got"Bummer, cannot run '/etc/init.d/rcS : no such file or directory". And a prompt which would accept no input, so had to do a hard shutdown.

Redownloaded the delta. remade the new iso and reburned.......same result.

To the other question at hand, since I'm running Puppy 430 w/ the 2.6.30.5 kernel I'd vote for using 482 as the main release. If it works as good or better than 477, which I can't really test yet.I prefer the newest kernel that will run on my equipment.

Bad news, I had the same results as James C , but I've included some additional error message content:

Bummer, cannot run'/etc/init.d/res': No such file or directory.
Please press enter to activate this console.
(Pressing Enter resulted in:)
-sh:id: not found
-sh:id: not found
-sh:id: not found
[:14: unknown operand
-sh:id: not found
(Then went blank, pressing Enter again resulted in repeat of above.)

This was with a frugal install, will do another full hd install when this is corrected. For the present, that partition has 477b. Agree with 01micko, 482 should be flagship.

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